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Category: Biology
Since I posted last night, DrugMonkey, Dr. Free-Ride, and the Intersection have also checked in with their POVs on this issue. I particularly liked this comment from Dr. Free-Ride: We get to foot the bill for the effects of other...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Do drug addicts "deserve" our research money?
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:50 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
One of the coolest, weirdest, worlds-colliding Day of the Dead artworks I've ever seen is this sculpture of a skeletal Teddy Kennedy. He's at a podium, open-jawed (no doubt haranguing other late Senators), accompanied by a skeletal dog. The paper...
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Category: Blogosphere
Jared Diamond responds, call for a National Ocean Policy, Sciart in the Bay, Armed with Science, a new NIDA media guide, and Stephen Fry on coping with depression
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Category: Book Reviews
The initial reviews of Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum's new book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future produced a small blogospheric kerfuffle last month. But I think Unscientific America has much more constructive and useful things to offer...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:58 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Science for Policy Project, co-chaired by former Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), past chair of the House Science Committee, and Donald Kennedy, former editor of Science, and directed by David Goldston, former chief of staff of the...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:50 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Yikes!
Wow. Here's another inexcusable case of bad science journalism - one that clearly has political motives. This is the lede from a story by Amanda Carpenter in this morning's Washington Times: President Obama's top science adviser has toyed with extreme...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:00 AM • 67 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Artomatic just wouldn't be complete without a sinister cephalopod, and luckily Kurt Peterson stepped in to make it happen.
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Category: Artists & Art
Michael Sirvet's aluminum shell, three feet in diameter, is a porous excuse for a bowl (heh heh), but all those edges make lovely sifted patterns of light.
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Category: Artists & Art
I'm not even going to start "deconstructing" the layers of meaning in Forrest McCluer's giant model of a biological virus, made out of discarded, outdated computers. . .
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:24 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
